I would like to discuss pricing guidlines and practices here. My thoughts are about stock footage (where I am mostly) but I think other authors may add something for other categories too.

My opinion that there are huge discrepancies for the pricing here. Price basicly depend on resolution and how many items if it is bundle.
Let me outline several examples of great videos and other examples (where I’ll put some critical comments) for the same price. In my evaluation I may be not always correct since I seen previews only. And nothing against any of the author (all authors are great!) it is more about pricing and review guidlines.
HD quality (1280×720) priced $4:

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Full HD quality (1920×1080) priced $5-6:

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2K items (2048×1152) $20
Is it really worth to pay 4x the price for adding 14% of pixels over Full HD version available for $5?

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3K-4K items $35-40

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Per my honest opinion some videos priced $4-$5-$6 (like great examples above) are actually have more quality and they are more usefull and harder to do than some other videos priced even $20-40.
My believe if Envato wants to develop footage market than prices must be deffirentiated based on quality/usability/actors/uniqueness/how hard to do and may be other criterias.

P.S. This discussion does not relate with possibility of stock footage market separation from AE projects (wish of many AE project authors). Described issue is not good for the market anyway.

P.S.S. I flagged this thread for staff reply and look forward for any official answer.

Sorry if it looks offensive. I did not want to.
I like many of your work by the way!

And I am not sayng at all that my work is perfect ( I did not mention any of my items in the list of great examples above). We all have room to learn and improve for sure.

The question is about price difference and what I really don’t like that price mostly depend on video resolution as of today. Mostly not depend on quality or uniqueness, usability or how hard to do, what equipment used, how long does it takes, actors, etc.
Items outlined are just few examples of how the whole system works.

Do you think based on examples I outlined above that pricing is right here?

I don’t see how this is offensive. Furthermore, the points made are more or less valid. He does not need any permission for this, I reckon. Forum discussion should not be made personal. There is almost nothing I can say about pricing stock so.. oh well, my comment is useless as well

Sorry Andre, I have to remove the links, because it’s making critical comments on other users work (not very critical, I’ll admit). But this is a marketplace at the end of the day, and we need to be careful about anything that might negatively effect sales of another author’s work. If staff would like to see the original text, email me. And by the way, the fly-by of the drone is blatantly a 3D render, and a none too photo-real one, so not that difficult to do after all.

For what it’s worth, I agree. The $15 price hike from 1920×1080 to 2K is absurd. 2K might suggest that it’s shot on a RED camera, for instance, but it’s not a dead cert. Hey… I want a better price for my h.264 footage. I’ll blow it up to 2K in post.And for that matter, there are many high end cameras, including RED that are capable of shooting 1920×1080… and of course, anything can be resized in post. In other words, a frame size bigger than HD is not a technical indicator of quality.

I was just checking through some files though and there are full HD shots out there with production value, and prices of $30. But I still think that there is some footage that seems to get priced at $4 whatever.

To make video shooting in the sky or under water it is more difficult, than to make shooting of video of the house cat. And still such shootings demand money. But at identical technical characteristics of cameras the price of footage will be determined identical. It isn’t absolutely logical. And if to make shooting of a cat with the resolution of 4K, he will be more expensive
But if employees of Envato have to consider a large number of criteria for determination of cost, time of consideration of works will strongly increase. And how to measure in figures video shooting is how difficult?
The low price of high-quality works is compensated by a large number of sales.
I consider that the difference in the price has to be, but not considerable.